In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.